This is the correct reply. AM is trash, but we even have highway signs that mention AM stations for certain road condition alerts and stuff. Most places don’t rely on it, but when you’re in the mountains it’s useful.

Hell, even here in CA we only barely started getting cell signals in places like Malibu pass and the like. I can usually get cell service and FM on the 5 or PCH but the moment you leave those, all bets are off.

People who think 60% is too low haven’t met a young person in a while, I think… virtually everyone in every class I teach uses Apple computers or tablets; I’m absolutely not surprised that’s where most of the change has gone, at least for personal use. (And in the US specifically)

That said, I’d have thought the 30% mac share was earlier than 2010, this suggests that it’s more recent? Apple might as well been running a psyop to get young people to use their products since the 90s. I remember when I was in middle school, they “generously” donated a lab full of those colorful iMacs to my school. Seems it might have been the first computer many of my peers had even touched, too.

We’ve known that for decades… that was the whole point of pushing to get rid of spanking in the 90s; kids model that behavior.

Maybe not my biggest pro, but I was able to customize my UI way more than I ever could on Windows. I made an FFIX theme for my wife and I might make an Earthbound theme for myself whenever I get around to figuring out how to make a customized window style.

Is the phone integration a iPhone thing? My KDE Connect app lets me text and share files pretty easily, plus a few other nifty features, but I use Android.

Oddly, not a single problem on my 2070 system but I think age helps Linux get stable. Older the hardware, the better open source works.

You know what, I double that sentiment. The Linux community definitely helped me make the switch too, even if not by DMs.

I still have issues with an Nvidia card computer I own, but all my other machines work just fine and I simply like it more. I’m sure my card will come around sooner or later anyway.

The worst is when they cut me off for their pointless first at red because I’m turning right and would do so legally but it’s not a dedicated right turn lane so now I get to wait for green with this asshole who’s going straight.

Hell half the time in a dedicated right lane they cut me off and illegally go straight. It’s fucked. I’m just trying to drop off my kids, damnit.

I teach, so trying to adjust old ppts for lecture got a little weird because it turned the bulletpoints into mailboxes, and equation formulas are done completely differently so libre just makes them uneditable (a picture?).

When things got wonky in lecture though I managed just fine. My students are much worse, they open shit in non-MS apps all the time (.notes for takehome exams, or like, keynote, whatever) and fuck up formatting all the time, often without even realizing it. (I do provide PDF alternatives at least). Explaining I use libre really easy in that case, lol.

I’ll be trying to contribute to that!

Already hit a difficulty since my workplace uses Microsoft for everything and the admins lock out third party stuff. I guess I can access files on outlook and OneDrive via browser based options but God they’re awful.

Him 20-30 years ago probably would have. This is a man who, when I was a kid, made a custom UI for msdos so my brother and I could play games easier. He wouldn’t just tinker, he’d probably be contributing.

Old age and alcoholism has kind of robbed him of that, though. At this point he’ll probably just ask me to fix it if it goes wrong, lol

It’s unfortunate that years as a tech guy at his job has made him less software curious, so probably bazzite then. Rather, I guess when it’s your job to fix things, tinkering isn’t fun anymore.

I ended up with CachyOS over Bazzite but I’m looking into the latter for my dad since I’m guessing it’s more stable and easier.

I just… Idk, I like Arch over Fedora. I blame the little pacman eating my progress whenever I install stuff in konsole. Desktop mode to desktop mode it’s the same KDE Plasma I’d be using, though. Are there any other striking differences between Cachy and Bazzite?

Edit: it was good to bring it up here, y’all are very knowledgeable on these things. It sounds to me that I need to get bazzite for my dad mostly because he won’t want to fuss or work on it and that I made the right call for myself since Cachy (and Arch in general) gives more flexibility. Frankly I might not even give him desktop mode default, he strictly wants something to play from bed in full on retirement mode.

Darn, I was hoping for Vantacat.

Funny, a decade ago I would have suggested an AI do exactly this as impartial, but we don’t have that kind of AI, we have LLMs. Ugh, clearly they just want more corruption.

I usually liken it to video games, ya. Is it worse that nothing? Sure, but that flight or road trip, etc, is a bigger concern. Not to mention even before AI we’ve had industrial usage of energy and water usage that isn’t sustainable… almonds in CA alone are a bigger problem than AI, for instance.

Not that I’m pro-AI cause it’s a huge headache from so many other perspectives, but the environmental argument isn’t enough. Corpo greed is probably the biggest argument against it, imo.

So, life of a humanities major like my wife. Actually, most majors that weren’t STEM.

If it helps anyone in this situation, you can try to bank on other skills. My wife is doing great now but got her start because of her bilingualism, and even that was only 35k a year. My sister did a little better with her music degree by pivoting to community manager, although in her case she had experience modding for a well known streamer. That was pretty good money right out the gate.

Point is, programming isn’t your everything, even if you’re leveraging something from your personal life.

Yes but it is really a Google News clone without random shit like “10 Anime Characters Who Ate Right but Still Died Young” or “50 Crazy Times Animals Did Taxes, #34 Will Blow You Away?”

I get an astonishingly junk food feed on my Google app, but you’re right to seek alternatives. It’s even peddling the propaganda site Whitehouse.gov.

Bad news except you can’t trust TV either. Or reading the news, lately. At least regardless of the medium, general advice carries-- double check sources, learn which are credible, etc.

I just hope people are following links and not just reading headlines, right? …Right?

Real talk the main driver of advances are usually healthier environments, better nutrition and access to knowledge (e g. Via tech). I don’t think Z or alphas are getting better in those regards, kind of inheriting the opposite.